John Helmer – The Unz Review Nov 16, 2024
Yulia Skripal communicated from her bedside at Salisbury District Hospital on March 8, 2018, four days after she and her father Sergei Skripal collapsed from a poison attack, that the attacker used a spray; and that the attack took place when she and her father were eating at a restaurant just minutes before their collapse on a bench outside.
The implication of the Skripal evidence, revealed for the first time on Thursday, is that the attack on the Skripals was not perpetrated by Russian military agents who were photographed elsewhere in Salisbury town at the time; that the attacker or attackers were British agents; and that if their weapon was a nerve agent called Novichok, it came, not from Moscow, but from the UK Ministry of Defence chemical warfare laboratory at Porton Down.
Porton Down’s subsequent evidence of Novichok contamination in blood samples, clothing, car, and home of the Skripals may therefore be interpreted as British in source, not Russian.
This evidence was revealed by a police witness testifying at the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry in London on November 14. The police officer, retired Detective Inspector Keith Asman was in 2018, and he remains today the chief of forensics for the Counter Terrorism Policing (CTPSE) group which combines the Metropolitan and regional police forces with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Security Service (MI5).
According to Asman’s new disclosure, Yulia Skripal had woken from a coma and confirmed to the doctor at her bedside that she remembered the circumstances of the attack on March 4. What she remembered, she signalled, was not (repeat not) the official British Government narrative that Russian agents had tried to kill them by poisoning the front door-handle of the family home.
The new evidence was immediately dismissed by the Sturgess Inquiry lawyer assisting Anthony Hughes (titled Lord Hughes of Ombersley), the judge directing the Inquiry. “We see there,” the lawyer put to Asman as a leading question, “the suggestion, which we now know not to be right, of course”. — page 72.
Hughes then interrupted to tell the witness to disregard what Skripal had communicated. “If the record that you were given there is right, someone suggested to her ‘Had you been sprayed’. She didn’t come up with it herself.” — page 73. Hughes continued to direct the forensics chief to disregard the hearsay of Skripal. “Anyway the suggestion that she had been sprayed in the restaurant didn’t fit with your investigations? A. [Asman] No, sir. LORD HUGHES: Thank you.”
So far in in the Inquiry which began public sessions on October 14, this is the first direct sign of suppression of evidence by Hughes.
Hearsay, he indicates, should be disregarded if it comes from the target of attack, Yulia Skripal. However, hearsay from British Government officials, policemen, and chemical warfare agents at Porton Down must be accepted instead. Hughes has also banned Yulia and Sergei Skripal from testifying at the Inquiry.
The lawyer appointed and paid by the Government to represent the Skripals in the inquiry hearings said nothing to acknowledge the new disclosure nor to challenge Hughes’s efforts to suppress it.
Asman described his career and credentials in his witness statement to the Inquiry, dated October 23, 2024. His rank when he retired from the regular police forces in 2009 was detective inspector. He was then promoted to higher ranking posts at the operations coordinating group known as Counter Terrorism Policing for the Southeast Region (CTPSE). By 2018 Asman says he was “head of the National Counter Terrorism Forensics Working Group since 2012, and was the UK Counter Terrorism Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) forensic lead.” In June 2015 Asman was awarded the Order of the British Empire (MBE) “for services to Policing.”
At page 19 of his recent witness statement, this is what Asman has recorded for the evening of March 8, 2018:
Source: https://dsiweb-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/INQ006140_strong-compression.pdf — page 19.
Asman’s went on to claim in this statement: “At this point Yulia Skripal was described as being emotional and fell unconscious. I made notes of my conversation with DI [Detective Inspector] VN104 in one of my notebooks, and in addition this information was confirmed to me in writing the next morning. The information she provided about being sprayed at the restaurant [Zizzi] was seemingly inconsistent with the presence of novichok at the Mill public house and 47 Christie Miller Road. On hearing this, I personally wondered whether Yulia Skripal knew more about it than she had alluded to and therefore whilst being fully cognisant of the SIO’s [Senior Investigative Officer] hypothesis and the need to be open-minded continued to prioritise her property.”
THE SCENE OF THE NOVICHOK CRIME
Scene of the Salisbury poisoning. Click to enlarge
The Skripals reportedly spent 45 minutes at lunch in Zizzi’s restaurant. Witnesses described Sergei Skripal as upset when he left with Yulia to walk to the bench. Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
THE EVIDENCE THE CRIME WAS BRITISH
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Left: Yulia Skripal in May 2018, the scar of forced intubation still visible; read more here. Centre; Dr Stephen Cockroft who recorded the exchange with Skripal at her bedside on March 8, 2018; that was followed, Cockroft has also testified, by forced sedation and tracheostomy – read more. Right: read the only book on the case evidence.
Open-minded was not what the judge and his lawyers wanted from Asman when he appeared in public for the first time on Thursday, November 14. Referring precisely to the excerpt of Skripal’s hospital evidence, Francesca Whitelaw KC for the Inquiry asked Asman: “ We can take that [witness statement excerpt] down, but this information as well, was it consistent or inconsistent with what you had found out in terms of forensic about the presence of Novichok at The Mill and 47 Christie Miller Road? A. [Asman] It, I would say, was inconsistent on the basis that she said she was sprayed in the restaurant.” — page 73.
Asman was then asked by Whitelaw to comment on Yulia Skripal’s exchange with Cockroft. “My question for you is: how, if at all, this impacted on your investigations? A. It only very slightly impacted on it…It was information to have but not necessarily going to change my approach on anything.” — page 73.
Left, Francesca Whitelaw KC, counsel assisting Hughes, asked Asman about Yulia Skripal’s hospital evidence – click to watch from Minute 2:01:27. Right: Hughes interrupting the witness to dismiss Skripal’s evidence from Min 2:03:23. On Hughes’s order, Asman’s face was not transmitted during his testimony, and the audio record was delayed by ten minutes before broadcast.
In the Inquiry record of hearings and exhibits since the commencement of the open sessions on October 14, there have been eleven separate exhibits of documents purporting to record what Yulia and Sergei Skripal have said; they include interviews with police and witness statements for the Inquiry; they are dated from April 2018 through October 2024. Most of them have been heavily redacted. None of them is signed by either Skripal.
Neither Yulia nor Sergei Skripal has been asked by the police, by the Inquiry lawyers, or by Hughes to confirm or deny whether Yulia’s recollection of March 8, 2018, of the spray attack in Zizzi’s Restaurant is still their evidence of what happened to them.
(Republished from Dances with Bears)
when communism collapsed the jewish lawyers were waiting and changed laws so that certain jews could buy up state assets for pence these jewish mafia guys became very rich over night
publisher Robert Maxwell was part of this and published fake reports in his newspapers The US casino owner Sheldon Adelson became famous for his winning of 5 milion dollars ina bet
he said he could puta ,man in the white house who was-
black
a homosexual pervert
not born in the USA he won with Barack Obama
Sheldon greased a lot of poles before his death in 2021
he arranged through rothschilds london office for change agent Tony Blair to allow into the UK a host of new milionaires and all jewish mafia
which he did, and Kier Starmer is going along with these mafia guys committing huge crimes here
Israeli agents were behind the kings cross fire which killed certain witneses and the 7 7 bombing
this was to say to the british public this was done by saddham husein and iraq which gave tony blair the signal to kill a million iraqis
exactly as Gislane Mxwell said all your politicians are bought and paid for by us
a lot went to epsteins island to enjoy the boys and girls and all on film for blackmail
including kier starmer
Is it any wonder that so many installed members of Those In Power TIP in the political arena are lawyers by training and inclination? Clinton, Obama, Sarkozy, Macron, Thatcher, Blair, Starmer plus many presidents of EU countries or top officials? No, it’s not. It is a vocation given up to twisting, lying, fabricating or suppressing evidence in the name of TIP and a protean concept of ‘justice’ and above all, being highly paid to do so.Whores in High Office.
All judges believe sanctimoniously in their own magnificence and the divinity and objectivity of the law they dispense- think of all the lawyers in Nazi Germany- so adored by many here, Soviet Russia-ditto, Mao’s China, Pol-Pot’s Cambodia and the legions of lawyers across the USA dedicated to money and obstruction/obfuscation even since it began. When in fact, they are merely following tidy orders.
In Britain, the situation is notably farcical. You have a ‘justice’ system that openly boasts of its independence from political influence; a breathtaking delusion when you consider the fact that all are Crown appointees and the malignant hand of the security services night and day; all in the National Interest . This is what Shakespeare meant when he talked about the equivocators, who can and will argue one side or the other for money and gain. Such is judicial independence, the right to lie- coupled with the risible notion that barristers will only take a ‘case’ if they believe in the innocence of their client. Right, if the price is right or it furnishes the career path?
Delay is another sinister characteristic of lawyers, notably when it suits TIP of course. The timeline of the Skripal case illuminates this. The fact that it has taken six years plus just to get a hearing into the death of a woman who was allegedly killed by Novichok in a perfume bottle discarded by the hit-men and not found for weeks in a litter bin near the site of the Skripal’s park bench, should beggar any belief. Instead, this is presented as painstaking thoroughness in the pursuit of the ‘truth’ and objectivity, when in reality six months would have been more than sufficient time. Time is money though, and it means suitable actors can be appointed, rehearsed, groomed and the memory hole enlarged. In that six plus years there have been 5 Prime Ministers in Britain: May who hosted the original farce and ushered in a new degree of Russophobia, Johnson serial liar, Truss one week wonder and Nordstream blow-job, Sunak safe pair of billionaire hands and now Starmer -former head of Crown Prostitution Services. Nice one. Huge scope for info to go ‘missing’ the narrative to be changed accordingly and the right answer to be protracted and very expensively manufactured.
Already in this hearing you have a very focused judge who knows what must be the outcome and above all he decides what is admissible. Hence pure justice emerges unscathed, or rather you have yet another biased interfering puppet who will likely orchestrate yet another ‘miscarriage of justice’ But hey, 20 years later another costly panel of judges can deliberate and pontificate that maybe, possibly, not proven in the interest of national security, facts will be hung by the neck until dead. 70 year rule, quiet! Miscarriage of Justice? Abortion of Decency more like.
Looking at the panel of lawyers lined up and groomed by their intelligence handlers, the name of one stands out at the moment- Francesca Whitelaw KC. She bears a striking resemblance to that pudding faced aristo William Whitelaw who was Thatcher’s favourite Willy. Could they be some relation ha ha! KC stands for King’s Council an honour bestowed on promising advocates, used to be QC of course in former times. KC really means Kangaroo Court and QC Quisling Court but there we are. Such lawyers are selected for this hearing due to experience in Public Law, Police Law (contradiction in terms there) and Human Rights, how cute. Another giant in Human Rights is none other than Sir Keir & Lady Starmer KC, or is that perhaps Human Shites?
By the way. WHERE ARE those Skripal’s these days?? They are not allowed to present evidence in this hearing as it’s clearly not relevant or in the public interest. The dead tell no tales, for now…
“Novichok Attack Was a British Operation…”
Wow.. this IS shocking news! Who could’ve guessed???
Certainly not your typical bbc-brainwashed THICK Brit!!! 😂😂😂
Yeah right. ‘john helmer’–10 to 1 this guy is some kgb agent. Most if not all of these Putintards on these alternative media sites like Unz are russian agents pretending to be ‘americans’ or ‘conservatives’ etc. TTS running more Commie propaganda to exonerate these Russian Commie assassins/nutjobs.
Jews have to run disinfo stories like this now & then to convince the morons that all these intelligent agencies (cia-kgb-marxistI5-mossad etc) are ‘independent’ of one another & not managed by the same supranational Commie-Jew cabal.
The Skripal poisonings were simply the UK’s lame attempt to join in the American Russia-bashing campaign.
It does not matter if the poison came from a spray or was on the door nob, the UK authorities were in charge of the entire fake investigation right from the start and their only objective was to frame the Russian agents.
FREE TRAVEL FOR MIGRANTS
UK city hands free bus passes to asylum seekers – while other passengers pay £4.50
Story by Kris Boratyn
A new scheme in Oxford will see free bus day-passes handed to asylum seekers – while other passengers pay up to £4.50.
The pilot scheme, which was launched on Monday, November 11, gives asylum seekers in Oxfordshire li a week free access to buses within Oxford’s SmartZonThe initiative was supported by Asylum Welcome and Citizens UK and aims to help travel to appointments, attend classes and integrate into the community.
The Oxford Bus Company’s website lists the cost of a CityZone day pass at £4.50.
Other options include a weekly pass for £18, a 4-week pass for £61, and an annual pass costing £499.
i wonder if maksut shadayev (the obese Yid ‘russian’ minister of mass media) told TTS to publish this?
If you were listening to the British “news” at the time, their tone of voice was enough to tell you they were f.o.s. Liars always make the truth known if you have discernment
YES + Alexander Litwinenko was also victim
of a insidious jewMI5+6 false flag poisoning
to blame Putin .
I know Salisbury. The Jew K’s chemical and biological Porton Down is less than ten miles form this false flag. It was the filthy Jew K up to its old warmongering tricks. Russia overthrew the Jews first the Communists then the Jewish oligarchs. Mr Putin is an obstacle to the Jew one world government.
“By the way. WHERE ARE those Skripal’s these days??”
According to scumipedia they’re been given a few million of your tax money as reward for being traitors to two countries and a nice big house to live in in new zealand. Like all the vermin, they get a retirement in the sun while you rot in cesspit britain.
Here “Mengele” is right: Unz even denied that Khazars are of the Khazaria Empire origin. Stunning theatre.
@ Mili Tant
Why not attack all doctors? It is like your are saying that that most bad people have doctors so that proves most doctors are bad. In fact, most people who get a law degree do not even practice law. Our legislatures are about making and unmaking laws, and if you are uneducated as to our laws and how they work you are going to be quite naive and useless in arguing for or against a law, or advising people what is legal and what isn’t. If you are accused of breaking a law then supposedly you have some rights to defend yourself and if it is a serious offence then going to court by yourself is like taking out your own appendix.
The problem in all of our professions is the lack of morality. That authority has been replaced with “ethics” which today is no more than etiquette. This is the same problem for those who go to our capitals to represent our interests. It is the same problem in all of our institutions. The higher you go up the more amoral you have to be to survive. It is generally the case for anyone whether they have a legal background or one in science, medicine, commerce, or history, Money and power tend to corrupt everything and the reason is that today in virtually all fields those are out highest ends. What do you expect in a society where most people accept that their governments have an absolute right to lie to them, and when most turn a blind eye to what RFK Jr. is saying about the war in the Ukraine which is the TRUTH, and OUR moral condemnation for allowing the bloody thing to start in the first place?
Even Tucker Carlson who relies on his dogs to discern whether a person is good or evil seems to think all lawyers are rich and evil, and even that most yachts are owned by lawyers, which is complete horseshit. “The average salary for a lawyer in Canada is $126,595, but salaries can range from the mid-$30,000s to over $400,000.”. The average salary for a lawyer in my province, British Columbia, is $105,797 per year, or $51 per hour. In fact the socialist government running BC is trying to do away with tort lawyers altogether. They want government appointed tribunals to hear all the cases. They have eradicated medical malpractice not by eradicating any medical malpractice but by ensuring with their pressures on the legal system that any victim has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning a case against the illustrious socialist health-care system which is one of the worst in the world. As a result we simply have to rely on the incompetence and good will of those in the system to to help us when we are sick or injured. What they have done is to institutionalized medical malpractice just as they have institutionalized the illegal heroin and fentanyl industries.
Also, we find with so many so-called “truthers” such a complete distain for lawyers that most of them do not even know that Reiner Fuellmich, is rotting in a German jail because he is the tort lawyer who began in 2020 to consolidate for their testimonies all of the independent experts who were able to prove the pandemic was a plandemic and none of the measures and mandates were necessary, and that the vaccines neither were necessary and were killing people. He was so effective in exposing the Covid evils that they had to lock him up lest the only independent court left on the planet, the Mauri nation in New Zealand, would give the evidence a fair hearing, and in effect convict all of our governments of their heinous crimes against humanity.
It seems that you perhaps are are one of those very bigoted folk who go around looking for a convenient target for all of the evils you see, forgetting that generally it is the case that people are being constantly lied to and brainwashed by the mainstream media and their governments. What we are living in now is a society where there is no moral integrity to anything or in any profession, and were most people are quite willing to prostitute their principles for money and power. The reason is that they really have no moral principles, and as their consciences are dead, being unchecked by any sense of holiness or reverence for the things above.
Actually, it is not even “tone of voice” but some sort of weird echo you can pick up, as if they were bouncing the lies off Lucifer in the moon and Mengele on Mars (or something less trivial)